About the Role: Adelphi's at an inflection point and we're hiring our first Head of Talent Acquisition. This is a hands-on role that will be tasked with building the team to tackle National Security challenges. This role will design and build out Adelphi's Talent function ground-up with an engineering-first mindset, while owning the full recruitment cycle.
Clearance Requirement: Candidates must be clearance eligible. What You'll Do: - Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting: Own end-to-end recruitment across Adelphi, running high-touch candidate experiences from initial outreach, scheduling and coordinating technical screens, case studies and all interactions, to offer negotiations and closing candidates. - Targeted Talent Acquisition: Design and execute proactive sourcing strategies to identify, engage, and pipeline top-tier technical, engineering, and specialized talent across all critical business functions. - Engineering Partnership & Structured Assessment: Partner closely with engineering teams and technical evaluators to design interview processes that ensure fast, consistent, and objective evaluations. - Recruiting Infrastructure & Playbooks: Build and document scalable recruiting operations from scratch, such as candidate trackers, process guides, scorecard templates, and interview workflows. - Talent Strategy & Vendor Management: Own Adelphi's talent strategy, evaluate platform/sourcing tool performance, and selectively manage external agency or staffing relationships when needed. - Employer Branding : Work closely with leadership to enhance and promote Adelphi's brand, making us a talent magnet for top performers in the defense and intelligence communities.
Who You Are - Proven Talent Leader: A strategic self-starter who transforms ambiguity into structured recruiting strategies, backed by hands-on experience scaling teams within early-stage or high-growth startup environments. - 0-to-1 Builder: Proven track record operating as a foundational talent partner. You are relentless about attracting exceptional talent, and will work closely with our hiring managers to brainstorm the dynamics of our customer-facing teams.
You are comfortable building ATS setups, playbooks, and recruiting infrastructure from scratch with minimal supervision. - Bias for Speed: We win on rapid execution; you like to move fast and win. - Technical & Specialized Sourcing Expertise: Demonstrated success sourcing, engaging, and closing hard-to-find software engineers, AI/ML specialists, and cross-functional operators in competitive markets. - Brand & Storytelling Mindset: Skilled at framing a company's mission and technical culture into a compelling candidate value proposition across outreach and talent networks. - Hands-On & Execution-Minded: Thrives working at both the tactical level (sourcing candidates, managing pipelines, scheduling) and strategic level (crafting offer frameworks, partnering with executive leadership). - Clear & Direct Communicator: Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to advise hiring managers, manage candidate expectations, and partner directly with C-suite leadership. - Familiarity with Clearable/Federal hiring: Prior experience recruiting technical talent supporting government, defense, or intelligence agency customers with familiarity in clearable and non-clearable candidate pools.
Why Adelphi? - Direct Ownership: You will build the foundation of our recruiting engine; every process, tracker, and workflow you establish will shape how Adelphi scales. - High Impact: Direct ownership of hiring outcomes at a fast-moving, seed-stage company with active government contracts and significant growth ahead. - Mission-Driven Work: The engineers you hire will build the foundational data and artificial intelligence infrastructure that the U.S. defense and intelligence communities depend on.
Benefits: - Healthcare coverage: 100% employee premium and 50% dependents premium coverage of a platinum-level plan. - 401K with 2% company match. - Equity in a seed-stage business. - Access to 6713 Club - a members-only club in McLean, VA. - $500 monthly Physical and Mental Health reimbursement program. - Unlimited time-off policy. - Competitive salary and equity compensation. - Opportunity to work on impactful projects in the national security sector. - Career growth and leadership opportunities in a dynamic, innovative environment.
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